Re: Debian/GNU Freebsd
shields@msrl.com (Michael Shields) writes:
> In article <[🔎] 19990217215501.C12732@complete.org>,
> John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org> wrote:
> > why should we spend energy on it? FreeBSD is a dead-end path anyway.
>
> This is a pointless thing to say. Lots of technologies have looked
> like dead-end paths at various points in time -- including Unix and
> TCP/IP. Only time will tell.
I don't know of anybody that really thought that about Unix. I do
know of people that thought that about the PDP-11, for instance.
Funny how that turned out to be true.
> If you really want a Debian-BSD, the best thing to do is to start
> building it. Productive people are attracted much more to running
> code than they are to ideas.
OBviously I don't really want that :-)
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